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AI researcher — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Mathematicians · Computer Programmers · Operations Research Analysts · Computer Systems Engineers/Architects · Bioinformatics Technicians · Bioinformatics Scientists
In the official classification#
Computer and Information Research Scientists
Fit with this page: closest match, not the same job
Job Zone 5: extensive preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 15-1221.00 (Computer and Information Research Scientists). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Complex Problem SolvingVery important
- Judgment and Decision MakingVery important
- Systems AnalysisVery important
- ProgrammingVery important
- Systems EvaluationVery important
- Time ManagementImportant
- Operations AnalysisImportant
- Technology DesignImportant
Knowledge
- Computers and ElectronicsExtremely important
- MathematicsVery important
- Engineering and TechnologyVery important
- English LanguageVery important
- Administration and ManagementImportant
- DesignImportant
Work activities
- Working with ComputersExtremely important
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsExtremely important
- Getting InformationExtremely important
- Updating and Using Relevant KnowledgeExtremely important
- Analyzing Data or InformationExtremely important
- Thinking CreativelyExtremely important
Abilities
- Deductive ReasoningVery important
- Inductive ReasoningVery important
- Oral ComprehensionVery important
- Oral ExpressionVery important
- Written ComprehensionVery important
- Fluency of IdeasVery important
Essential skills
- Critical ThinkingVery important
- Reading ComprehensionVery important
- Active ListeningVery important
- SpeakingVery important
- Active LearningVery important
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 6 task judgements are for: 5 backed by a verified event, 1 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.